The ancients used chaplets of diminutive size, called “struppi;”1839 from which comes our name for a chaplet, “strophiolum.” Indeed, it was only by very slow degrees that this last word1840 became generalized, as the chaplets that were used at sacrifices, or were granted as the reward of military valour, asserted their exclusive right to the name of “corona.” As for garlands, when they came to be made of flowers, they received the name of “serta,” from the verb “sero,”1841 or else from our word “series.”1842 The use1843 of flowers for garlands is not so very ancient, among the Greeks even.